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gnauck

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Posted 06 October 2005 - 13:43

hello,

Most of our software is currently packaged with Inno-Setup. Most of our clients are changing their servers to windows 2003 with supports the distribution of software with MSI packages. For our Software it's now a must that the automatic distribution works.

Because this doesn't work without MSI Setups I'm looking for an easy way to create this setup. I know that there is a tool in the ressource kit that logs changes during an installation and builds an MSI package of it. But thats no solution for us. Our current Inno-Setup scripts are very complicated because there is lots of different stuff to install. Porting them all to MSI would be a too big job.

Is there a way of packaging the old setup.exe files in a MSI setup and executing it? Did somebody try this already? And under which User permissions would the exected setup.exe then run?


Alex

Stefan Krueger

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Posted 06 October 2005 - 14:18

Yes, you could create a msi "wrapper" for your Inno setup. This wrapper would basically only include one custom action which runs your inno setup.
Depending on how you configure the custom action it will either run as the user executing the setup, or in System context (if the administrator has permitted this).